Alibaba is breaking out of China while the rest of the world tries to break in
Michael de Waal-Montgomery is a Hong Kong-based reporter and consumer tech enthusiast. You can find him on Twitter at @michaeldwm. With China’s state-run news agency Xinhua announcing at the end of July that Alibaba’s IPO will be put back to after the US Labor Day on September 1, discussion on e-commerce in Asia continues to be a hot topic. Aliaba’s IPO is expected to be one of the largest in US history, while it is also likely to strengthen Chinese e-commerce stocks in general — this after Chinese stocks trading in New York moved to a three-year high earlier this month. Commentators are…
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